The results of work with appeals for 2023 have been summarized

The analysis of the organization of work with appeals in the prosecutor's offices of the Vitebsk region showed that, as in previous years, more than a third of the appeals (37.3% of those received) did not fall within the competence of the prosecutor's offices. The main mass of such appeals concerned issues of the activities of local authorities and their structural divisions, as well as internal affairs bodies, the investigative committee.

More than 3 thousand appeals were directly resolved in the prosecutor's offices of the region, of which more than 40% were recognized as justified, and prosecutors took measures to restore the violated rights and interests of citizens and legal entities.

At the same time, the majority of resolved appeals concerned issues of compliance with legislation and the legality of legal acts (more than a thousand such applications were considered).

Unfortunately, cases still occur where prosecutors' intervention was required to protect citizens' labor rights.

For example, in the Chashniksky district, only upon the prosecutor's order was a final settlement made with a former employee of a construction organization.

Despite the fact that work with the population is given close attention in our country, an employee of the settlement center of Polotsk refused a citizen to accept a written statement simply because he applied at the end of the working day (after a prosecutorial inspection, the guilty person was brought to justice).

Reasonable appeals received regarding violations of legality in administrative proceedings and bringing to administrative responsibility indicate the existence of problems in this area. The majority of such appeals concerned disagreement with the termination of cases of administrative offenses at the stage of preparing the case for consideration. Due to the fact that during the consideration of these complaints, facts were revealed when the body conducting the administrative process (mainly internal affairs bodies) conducted incomplete checks, prosecutors canceled decisions to terminate cases of administrative offenses. The reasons for satisfying complaints of disagreement with bringing to administrative responsibility

responsibility is the improper fulfillment by the body conducting the administrative process of the requirements of the legislation regarding the comprehensive, full, and objective investigation of the circumstances of the commission of an administrative offense (in such cases, illegal decisions were appealed).

Prosecutors provided significant assistance to citizens and economic entities in protecting their interests in court. In the past year, at the request of economic entities, prosecutors sent more than 200 lawsuits (applications) to economic courts. More than 200 appeals from individuals and legal entities regarding the filing of lawsuits (applications) by prosecutors to general courts were also resolved, the majority of which were satisfied.

Prosecutors also focused on issues of legality in conducting inspections based on applications and reports of crimes, and in investigating criminal cases (more than 800 complaints against the actions and decisions of inquiry bodies and more than 400 complaints against the actions of investigators of the Investigative Committee were resolved).

At the same time, while a significant number of appeals regarding inquiry matters are in some cases due to citizens' unwillingness to admit that, in their opinion, the actions of the guilty persons do not constitute a criminal offense, and the actually arising relations are of a civil law nature and are under the jurisdiction of the court, the main reasons for receiving justified appeals (more than 50 percent) are still the low quality and incompleteness of the inspections conducted by inquiry bodies based on applications and reports of crimes. A high satisfaction rate for appeals in this category is observed in almost all regions of the oblast, which should be given close attention by the management of territorial internal affairs bodies.

The reasons for receiving justified appeals against the actions and decisions of investigators are mainly the bias and incompleteness of the investigation, violations of criminal procedure legislation during investigative actions and the adoption of procedural decisions. The largest percentage of satisfaction for such appeals is in the Liozno, Beshenkovichi, Postavy, and Chashniki districts, which also deserves attention.to the heads of the investigative units.

Appeals related to the activities of the penal enforcement system and enforcement bodies were resolved in the prosecutor's offices, and, if necessary, prosecutorial response measures were taken.

For example, by the order of the prosecutor of Novopolotsk, funds unreasonably debited from the account of the Novopolotsk OPI, which were due to her as alimony for minor children, were returned to a citizen.

Prosecutors paid attention to the organization and conduct of personal receptions (in 2023, 4.8 thousand people were received, about 800 of them during outreach receptions). Prosecutor's office employees also regularly participated in the work of public reception offices at executive committees and joint receptions of citizens with trade unions. Appeals received during personal receptions concerned various issues, and if necessary, citizens were explained the current legislation and invited to state their arguments in writing.

For example, following an appeal received by the Sennensky District Prosecutor's Office during a personal reception from a resident of the district, the prosecutor assisted in providing her with food products for children under two years of age, the delivery of which was entrusted to the Sennensky branch of the regional consumer union.

Deputy Head of the Organizational and Control Department of the Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office S.L. Zaitseva